Thursday, July 21, 2016

Memories of SDCC

With the San Diego Comicon now underway, my thoughts drift back to the first year I went to that amazing event, 1998.

I attended with several of my fellow Kubert School veterans, and I told them before we ever hit the show floor that my first goal was to scour the dealers for unique Aquaman items. There ended up not being a whole lot--I picked up an Captain Action flicker ring, some comics, a puzzle I think. But all the searching was worth it when I found what you see above.

This is a Japanese figurine in what is called the "Super Deformed" style. I had never seen such a thing before and was intrigued/horrified. I immediately bought it, against the wishes of one of my friends, who simply found it terrifying. I then, of course, spent the rest of the trip leaving this thing in various spots in our hotel room so it would be the first thing he saw when he woke up.